Report as of last week out of training camp that his knee is feeling real good. I note the extensive rehab, clearly has taken no risks with this and no doubt eyeing a spot on the national team at WC 2014.

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This ticks all the boxes of an unsolved mystery. Burns returned to Korea 3 weeks ago yet I have not seen or heard anything. Nothing from Guam interviews or photos. He had a pretty decent loan spell playing through the Aussie Summer. Anyone got any gossip.

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Incheon have told him he can go back to Australia but he doesn't want to. It's all about money......no club in the A league will pay the wage he gets here so he is prepared to see out his contract. That's why Incheon has been freezing him out as they want him to leave but he doesn't want to. He is basically being greedy and if he was prepared to take a pay cut he would have been back in the A league long ago.

Thanks for that update. That's a real shame he is not in the manager's plans for this season. He was in such good form and getting better as the A-League season went on. Maybe another loan somewhere. I can understand Incheon would not give him to a rival but surely some J-League side would consider a loan.

I suppose the only positive at the moment is he can leave at seasons end on a free.

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just because wrote:Incheon have told him he can go back to Australia but he doesn't want to. It's all about money......no club in the A league will pay the wage he gets here so he is prepared to see out his contract. That's why Incheon has been freezing him out as they want him to leave but he doesn't want to. He is basically being greedy and if he was prepared to take a pay cut he would have been back in the A league long ago.

I can imagine the confusion this causes with the Koreans too. I heard it's practically impossible to fire anyone in Korea, so they just shun them as an outcast until they leave out of shame. Clearly that's not going to work with a westerner, which the management at the club must find extremely bizarre. To be honest, fair play to him. They agreed to take him on, presumably based on what he could do for them. If they've made that commitment to him, then they should stick by it and freezing him out completely is just counter productive. I remember Real Madrid did something similar with Steve McManaman when he was there, making him train with the youth team, and he refused to budge. He said all the right things in the media about loving the city and the club and not wanting to leave. He completely won the fans over and in the end got his place back in the team and ended up scoring in the Champions League final.

I'm guessing that the serious money that can be earnt in Australia is all long tied up. Clubs there have marque players who earn considerably more, but those spots are decided prior to the season starting. At transfer time in January it's just a bit of tinkering so there was probably not much on offer.

The other thing of note is that the Australian manager picks a squad in March (I think I read somewhere). It will be interesting if Burns already knows something about his chances with that and does not have to race off to the first club that rings.

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I don't blame him. A soccer career is extremely short. Make the money you can now. It'd be different if he were a multi-millionaire playing in the EPL or La Liga, but he isn't. He is paid based on his perceived ability at the time he agreed to play for the club. As long as he puts in a shift everyday in training and if/when called upon in matches, the contract is in full-force.

One would think it would be in everyone's interests to at least find a club that will pay half his wages and send him back out on loan. I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up happening around the beginning of the season (the other club would have little interest in paying his wages during pre-season).

just because wrote:I remember Real Madrid did something similar with Steve McManaman when he was there, making him train with the youth team, and he refused to budge. He said all the right things in the media about loving the city and the club and not wanting to leave. He completely won the fans over and in the end got his place back in the team and ended up scoring in the Champions League final.

off topic, i think the fall out occured the season after he scored in the final.